EditorialDesign for a sedan chair, Brush and yellow, brown, blue, purple, rose water colors, pen and Chinese ink, black chalk on paper, Shown in profile, turned toward right, with one bar. On top of the roof is a corner of a baron, supported by scrolls, at the ...
EditorialSheet from a Sketchbook: Minerva Orders Ulysses to Make Peace with the Suitors of Penelope (Minerva induce Ulisse alla pace con i Proci), Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, traces of graphite on cream laid paper, ...
EditorialMuchicongo men and many wives outside a hut, Angola. The men drink and smoke cachimbo pipes, while the women pound corn to make the local drink of oualo, brush their hair, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jean-Baptiste Douville from Giulio...
EditorialBrush Washer, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), Kangxi mark and period (1662?1722), China, Porcelain with peachbloom glaze (Jingdezhen ware), H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); Diam: 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Ceramics, Derived from copper, lush pinkish-red glazes were first pr...